On Borrowed Time vs Rains Over Babel

Rains Over Babel has the higher audience score (8.2/10 against 7.5/10 for On Borrowed Time). On Borrowed Time is the shorter watch at 1h 39m compared with 1h 51m. On Borrowed Time is the older of the two (1939 against 2026). Both are comedy, drama, fantasy movies, so they suit a similar mood.

On Borrowed Time posterOn Borrowed Time1939 VS Rains Over Babel posterRains Over Babel2026
On Borrowed TimeRains Over Babel
Audience score★ 7.5/10★ 8.2/10
Year19392026
Length1h 39m1h 51m
GenresComedy, Drama, FantasyComedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country–Colombia
DirectorHarold S. BucquetGala del Sol
Main castJames Burke, Lionel Barrymore, Cedric Hardwicke, Beulah Bondi, Una MerkelJohn Alex Castillo, Jhon Narváez, Sofia Buenaventura, Saray Nohemi Rebolledo Ospino, Felipe Aguilar Rodríguez

Synopsis

On Borrowed Time

Young Pud is orphaned and left in the care of his aged grandparents. The boy and his grandfather are inseparable. Gramps is concerned for Pud's future and wary of a scheming relative who seeks custody of the child. One day Mr. Brink, an agent of Death, arrives to take Gramps "to the land where the woodbine twineth." Through a bit of trickery, Gramps confines Mr. Brink, and thus Death, to the branches of a large apple tree, giving Gramps extra…

Rains Over Babel

In a retro-futuristic, tropical-punk twist on Dante’s Inferno, a group of misfits converges at Babel, a legendary dive bar that doubles as purgatory, where La Flaca—the city’s Grim Reaper—presides. Here, souls gamble years of their lives with her, daring to outwit Death Herself.

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